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Post by alex on May 15, 2022 16:54:24 GMT -5
Let's resurrect this one. it's a quote and the model that goes with it. I'll get us started:
“We’re far from having too much horsepower…my definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.” - Mark Donohue
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on May 15, 2022 18:17:37 GMT -5
“The quality will remain long after the price is forgotten!” -Sir Henry Royce  |
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Post by jager on May 16, 2022 6:25:48 GMT -5
"You're a pack of arseholes."  Jim Richards to the crowd after he was booed on the podium as the winner of the Bathurst 1000 in 1992. He crashed his Nissan in the rain, which brought out the red flag, but he was still awarded the race win because results were decided at the start of the lap the red flag was shown and the pro-Ford and Holden crowd didn't like it. |
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Post by Alfaholic on May 17, 2022 0:15:50 GMT -5
Thanks Ian, you've given me a giggle with that memory.
For the record, Tricky Dicky should have won that race!!!
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Post by alex on Jun 10, 2022 18:14:22 GMT -5
On the opening lap of the 1958 Indy 500 a foolish gamble by Ed Elisian caused a chain reaction of violence which killed the personable and wonderfully gifted driver Pat O'Connor, sent Rookie Jerry Unser over the low concrete guard wall and removed 13 cars from effective competition before the race was one lap old. "He went into the turn 50 mph over his head" - Dick Rathmann  "I had Elisian missed" - Jimmy Reese (Bob Veith's car struck his from behind) "Maybe I did haul Rathmann down into the corner too hard." - Ed Elisian  |
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Post by alex on Jul 9, 2022 17:21:34 GMT -5
Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.
— Junior Johnson, NASCAR legend, and one time whiskey runner
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Post by alex on Jul 9, 2022 17:30:23 GMT -5
Indy car racing is much more aggressive. — Emerson Fittipaldi
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Post by alex on Jul 16, 2022 22:51:25 GMT -5
“Ronnie drives absolutely flat-out, all the time. If he’s off the pace, then it might be the car, not him.” Colin Chapman.
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Post by alex on Jan 27, 2023 18:29:34 GMT -5
"When Fittipaldi became famous people began saying there was a man called Pace in Brazil who was even faster. When Pace got over here it turned out that he wasn't faster because you just can't be any faster." - Niki Lauda
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Post by alex on Jan 27, 2023 19:01:06 GMT -5
"Troy Ruttmann was just a phenomenon."
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Post by alex on Jan 27, 2023 19:17:40 GMT -5
"...I saw the smoke and said to myself...Whoever I hit I'm gonna hit'em hard enough to drive past to the finish line." - A.J. Foyt
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Post by jager on Mar 19, 2023 8:53:31 GMT -5
Mario Andretti... " This mechanic changes the front pads and puts them in backwards. And the discs are cracked. I come out of the pits, go over the rise, start my braking for the Esses – and it takes the wheel right out of my hands! The car had been refuelled – 80 gallons – and it was so heavy you couldn’t even lock the wheels. We just turned sharp right, straight into the bank. Big accident."  |
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Post by jager on Mar 19, 2023 8:58:42 GMT -5
Dan Gurney to a group of other drivers at Le Mans in 1967 who were saying it was too dangerous.. " If you think it's dangerous, perhaps you're driving too fast?"  |
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Post by jager on Mar 19, 2023 9:13:42 GMT -5
Mike Rockenfeller after his 2011 crash at Le Mans... " The safety standards at Audi are simply incredible and have saved my life. I've never had such an accident before in my career and hope I'll never have such an experience again."  |
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Post by jager on Mar 19, 2023 9:19:30 GMT -5
Graham Hill... " I'm an artist.
The track is my canvas,
and my car is the brush"  |
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